Part III – The Epic Battle of CPU Architectures: AMD vs ARM vs Intel Selecting, implementing, and running a CPU architecture is one of the most critical steps to running a successful Software or Product as a Service (SaaS or PaaS) organization as it’s the basis of how service will function. At the time of…
If you work with video on the internet, you know how resource-intensive encoding can be. While moving from in-house to cloud-hosted servers can save you a lot of money, that doesn’t change the fact that processing large videos with modern codecs takes significant computing power. “Video transcoding is one of the most computationally challenging things…
Part II – Applying Docker Tags to ARM The Journey from x86 to ARM continues As I covered in the first installment of our Journey from x86 to ARM series, the first major step for migrating a CPU Architecture is to update all relevant library dependencies that are compiled and optimized for one architecture to…
Part I – Updating Library Dependencies from x86 to ARM ARM CPU architectures have been in the news a lot recently: Apple announced that they are going to use ARM processors and ditch Intel. Cloud computing platforms such as AWS are offering instances with ARM. It seems like there is a significant shift in the…
VVC – the latest evolution for modern codecs Versatile Video Coding (h.266/VVC) is the newest block-based hybrid codec from the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET), a group comprised of MPEG and ISO/ITU members such as Bitmovin and Fraunhofer HHI, and promises to vastly improve the compression capabilities of workflows for any organization within the streaming…
As demand for streaming video grows worldwide, many ISPs and hosting providers have struggled to keep up. In 2020, Bitmovin has seen a 118% increase in videos played, but a 15% lower download speed on average. As a video provider, you can’t fix connection speeds due to overwhelmed internet service providers, but using the latest…
What is per-title encoding? By encoding video at bitrates appropriate to the content of the video file, content providers can make significant bandwidth savings as well as quality improvements. Introduction Per-Title Encoding is not a new concept. In fact, you can find research online that dates back several years, including this 2012 presentation: Choosing the…
Growing demand for elevated viewing experiences at home Over the course of the past few years, consumers, video content providers, and electronic device producers alike have been pushing the boundaries of what each considers a higher quality of viewer experience; Ranging from the user-friendliness of an application to improved content recommendations to the highest resolution…
Launching a new or revamped OTT service requires a lot of complex back-end workflow builds, including, but not limited to moving to a new encoder. The process of implementing a new encoder can often add further complexity and consume time to configure the encoder to work for your specific use case. However, this doesn’t have…
For an APAC live event, our video coding engineer Christian Feldmann compared the HEVC (H.265) vs VP9. During the session, we discussed the fundamental differences between the two “modern codecs” and tied it off with an early analysis of each codec’s performance. These results were obtained using the open-source encoders libvpx-vp9, x264, and x265. This…
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